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Originally Posted by Slackdoodle
That's because we're fans, on the outside, with scant knowledge of behind-the-scenes dynamics and stories. Any writer/filmmaker worth their salt is gonna dig, dig, dig and find that drama and conflict, figure out the angle that makes a compelling story. I didn't think I'd ever care about watching an Elton John biopic but Rocketman was amazing.
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Rocketman was great. Elton John is a larger than life personality, and the style of that movie fit him well.
Eric Clapton's life would make an interesting film. His mother got pregnant young, so he grew up thinking his mother was his sister and his grandparents were his parents. Serious drug and alcohol addiction (in his autobiography he wrote about going to some sort of fair, getting so wasted that he passed out on the ground and when he woke up, the field was empty, as the fair left town, and he was laying in his own vomit and excrement). Writing one of the most iconic rock songs in history about being in love with his friends wife, and eventually marrying her. The friend happened to be one of the Beatles. By luck didn't get on the same helicopter as SRV after a concert and didn't die in 1990. His 4 years son falls out a skyscraper window, and he writes Tears in Heaven...
We definitely know the DMB had some conflict and struggle, but the writer/filmmaker would need to really dig a hole all the way to China to make an entire film that's interesting to the general public. By that I mean people who don't spend an inordinate amount of their time on Ants.